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Its a right-hand tap. It was about 20 quid from Marchant Dice. I'm not entirely sure why it costs a fraction of the price of trapezoidal taps from elsewhere; I expect I'll report back at some point when I find out

Its a right-hand tap. It was about 20 quid from Marchant Dice. I'm not entirely sure why it costs a fraction of the price of trapezoidal taps from elsewhere; I expect I'll report back at some point when I find out

I'm Cambridge based, as it happens.

Ah OK, yes I'd like to know how good the MD ones are - I want to replace the leadscrews in my lathe with metric LH 10x2... if it had been a LH one I might have negotiated a loan... I've made a RH one for delrin from a bit of scrap TR10x2 and might do the same for a LH one for brass with some TG10x2 and some case hardening power - MD want £31 for a LH one

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